Duluth, WA
Duluth wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Duluth lands at the 33rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 1,474 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Duluth at the 39th percentile, close to its 33rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Duluth's 1,474 counted buildings, 86.3% carry Direct exposure and only 13.7% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Duluth compares
Duluth's 52nd-percentile standing inside Washington outpaces its 33rd national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Duluth ranks 21,037 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,294 by building count (1 is largest). Within Washington alone, it ranks 300 of 628 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Washington on its state page.
Duluth and the insurance market
Duluth's moderate rating (33rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Duluth
With 86.3% of Duluth in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Duluth's 33rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Duluth, see the exposure-zones guide.